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With recent Windows 11 updates, some themes for Windows 11 stopped working. Mainly explorer will not launch. Some light and dark mode themes are working and some not. night mode themes don’t seem to be affected by it. So came up with the idea to add a fill and text color property to the .msstyles file and see what would happen using a theme that recently became unworkable. Sure enough it seems to have worked. only the TEXTCOLOR property was needed. If you come across a Windows 11 theme you’d like to update to work on recent builds, here a small guide as a workaround. If unfamiliar with how Windows themes work, please first create a system restore point before continuing.
Fix for older Windows 11 themes which are not functioning properly. (Explorer won’t load).
In this example I’m using Windows Style Builder 1565B updated for Windows 11. You will still need a license to get it working.
1. If using msstyleEditor the method is similar and should work the same. Navigation is the tricky part. What you’re looking for is to add a TEXTCOLOR Property to Colors (Globals). Generally you’ll want to use the same text color as Windows Text per individual theme.
2. Open the theme you wish to edit. Click the Add Property button which will open the New Property Dialog Box.
3. In the following image you can see what options need to be inputted.
Type: Color
Property: Textcolor
Value: 0,0,0 (can be edited later)
4. In the next image we see the TEXTCOLOR Property has been added and can now be edited to accommodate the theme’s colors.
Save your .msstyle file and it should be good to go.
Any questions/comments feel free to ask. hope this helps some of you out.